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The club’s distance runners went PB crazy as racing resumed this evening at the York University Cycle Circuit. We had 19 runners taking part in the 5k race with ten members running PBs and another four having their first race over … Continue reading →

England Athletics Yorkshire & Humberside Regional Volunteers Awards. Congratulations to Paul Wilson, winner of the Coach of the Year Award, And Rachel Ayrton, winner of Young Volunteer of the Year Award. Paul was nominated by a group of his athletes, and … Continue reading →

No real races recently of course. The York Virtual Run Group had a 10k (as a pair doing 5k each), which James Tucker “won” as a solo doing 2 fast 5ks in the week, 16.30 and 16.25. Some of our … Continue reading →

21 athletes travelled to Prestwold, Leicestershire, for a big Open Cross Country – one of the test events – which attracted an entry from a wide area though numbers fell as those living in Tier 3 were not able to … Continue reading →

11 runners from the club took part in last Thursday night’s 5k on the York University Cycle Circuit. The 5 lap course was fast and was a bit like running on a very large running track so people’s times were … Continue reading →

10 runners from the club took part in the socially distanced road races that took place on Sunday at Elvington airfield. Runners set off in groups of 8 every 15 seconds for race distances from 5k up to the full … Continue reading →

On Tuesday 15th at the Trafford BMC Gold Standard event, Angus McMillan and Tommy Shaw both achieved PBs, Angus clocking 3:52.13 in the 1500m and Tommy with 8:51.26 in the 3K. Well done lads. It was great to see many of … Continue reading →

Another fantastic run for Alex Botterill as he breaks his 800m club record again, this time clocking 1:46.82 at Bromley’s Twilight Meeting last Friday. Scott Lincoln also broke his club record on the 16th of August, throwing the shot 20.65m which … Continue reading →

Last weekend we held our second Valhalla Virtual Throws Competition. Once again we had entries from across the World including Costa Rica, Namibia, Sweden and other countries. We also held the Best of Britain going head to head in a … Continue reading →

The first Valhalla Virtual Shot Competition took please on May 2nd with over 220 athletes taking part from across the World and aged 8-75. City of York had a number of participants with most achieving what would be new Personal … Continue reading →